Week 6 (2/28) Part I: Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer Part II: Beyond Google: re-Thinking Search
DUE: Detailed Library Profile: must be handed in by 6:30 pm via Google Docs
Part I: Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer
QUESTIONS: How are new technologies impacting what we consider to be information? How do they change our research practice? How can we encourage patrons to use critical skills as they engage with these tools?
READ: Jenkins, H. (2008). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press. (Introduction, Chapters 2 & 5)
Schiff, S. (2006). Know it all: Wikipedia takes on the experts. The New Yorker. 36.
Poe, M. (2006). The hive: Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build anonline encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. The Atlantic Monthly. 86.
Part II: Beyond Google This portion of the class will be used for exploring search tools with with your project groups. As you explore these tools, think about what sort of search tools might best serve the needs of your patrons? Do they need to learn about new tools? Do they need to learn better ways to use the tools they are already using? Perhaps a bit of both?
READ: Braun, L. (2009, April 6). C'est la vie. YALSA blog
EXPLORE: There are many other tools that are "Beyond Google;" this list is by no means exhaustive. Your group may choose to find one of them for your lesson plan, should it meet the needs of your library patrons.
Part I: Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer
Part II: Beyond Google: re-Thinking Search
DUE:
Detailed Library Profile: must be handed in by 6:30 pm via Google Docs
Part I: Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and Transfer
QUESTIONS:
How are new technologies impacting what we consider to be information? How do they change our research practice? How can we encourage patrons to use critical skills as they engage with these tools?
READ:
Jenkins, H. (2008). Convergence culture: Where old and new media collide. New York: New York University Press. (Introduction, Chapters 2 & 5)
Schiff, S. (2006). Know it all: Wikipedia takes on the experts. The New Yorker. 36.
Poe, M. (2006). The hive: Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build anonline encyclopedia touched off history's biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge. The Atlantic Monthly. 86.
WATCH:
Mimi Ito on youth using digital technology
PBS Frontline, Merchants of Cool Under-the-Radar Marketing and The MTV Machine
PBS Frontline Digital Nation, danah boyd interview
PBS Frontline, Digital Nation "Distracted by Everything" (4:30-8:30)
Part II: Beyond Google
This portion of the class will be used for exploring search tools with with your project groups. As you explore these tools, think about what sort of search tools might best serve the needs of your patrons? Do they need to learn about new tools? Do they need to learn better ways to use the tools they are already using? Perhaps a bit of both?
READ:
Braun, L. (2009, April 6). C'est la vie. YALSA blog
EXPLORE:
There are many other tools that are "Beyond Google;" this list is by no means exhaustive. Your group may choose to find one of them for your lesson plan, should it meet the needs of your library patrons.
General Search tools:
http://toolsforsearch.wikispaces.com/
Beyond Google
http://oedb.org/library/college-basics/research-beyond-google
Film and Video
http://streamingvideo.wikispaces.com/
Images:
http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Smarter Google search:
explore the Wonder Wheel and Timeline (left hand toolbar, under Search Tools)
http://www.googlewonderwheel.com/
Personalization:
PageFlakes
http://www.pageflakes.com/
NetVibes
http://www.netvibes.com/en
IGoogle
http://www.google.com/ig
Libguides (a sample page by the Unquiet Librarian Blogger, Buffy Hamilton)
http://www.theunquietlibrary.libguides.com/
New York Times Widget Builder
http://www.nytimes.com/mem/timeswidgets/